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Beyonce ' s father Mathew Knowles has claimed black women with lighter skin have a better chance of becoming successful in mainstream music - including his own daughters Beyonce and Solange. Beyoncé ' s father : I dated her mother because I thought she was white.

Beyonce (C) poses with her father Mathew Knowles and her mother Tina Knowles Getty. Mathew Knowles has sparked a race row for claiming that his daughter Beyoncé was successful because of her " light skin ."

Beyonce's dad Mathew Knowles has claimed she is only successful because she has light skin.

The 'Halo' singer's father and former manager has given an interview in which he discusses racism and accusing the mainstream music industry of 'colourism'.

Matthew, 66, is African American and his ex-wife and Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles is of Louisiana Creole descent - African, Native American and French - and he believes her lighter ethnicity helped his daughter dominate the mainstream music charts.

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Success : Beyonce Knowles with her father Mathew Knowles (Kevin Winter/Getty). Asked if it was because they had lighter skin , Knowles replied: “Do you think that’ s an accident?” Knowles – who managed Beyoncé , Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams in Destiny’ s Child

Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyoncé , has gone from being at the heart of her success to This has nothing to do with skin color. She got everything she has based off talent. Only recently, fellow Destiny’ s Child member Kelly Rowland said she wants to be “part of a change in” this exact issue.

He told Ebony magazine: ''When it comes to black females, who are the people who get their music played on pop radio? Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki Minaj, my kids [Beyonce and Solange], and what do they all have in common?''

The interviewer asked if it was that they had lighter skin, and Mathew responded: ''Do you think that's an accident?''

Mathew masterminded Destiny's Child's ascent to the top of the charts and also managed Beyonce's solo career until 2011. They parted ways professionally, shortly after he split from Tina, because he fathered a son, Nixon, with Alexsandra Wright.

He is currently promoting his new memoir 'Racism: From The Eyes Of A Child', in which he claims that he was brought up to look down on people of darker skin, and first began dating Beyonce's mother Tina because he thought she was white.

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Beyonce with her husband Jay-Z Getty. The former Destiny' s Child manager gave an interview with Ebony to discuss his book Racism: From the Eyes of a Child where he admitted that when he was younger, deeply ingrained colourism led him to only date white or light - skinned black women who

Beyonce light as she ever was in the past held a caramel base tone to her skin which was always present, now… she ’ s basically white and pink. She just happens to be more successful at it than most of us. “if there is a GOd, this cd will fail and she and her tacky clothes, toy music, and plastic

Mathew said: ''I talk about going to therapy and sharing - one day I had a breakthrough - that I used to date mainly white women or very high-complexion black women that looked white. I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was white. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was actually very much in-tune with her blackness.''

Beyonce - who is married to Jay-Z - has spoken of rebuilding her relationship with her father since his split from her mother. In 2013 she and her sister, Solange Knowles, failed to attend his wedding to Gena Charmaine Avery.

Beyonce and Mathew have since appeared in pictures together on social media.

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